CPA Projects – Detailed Report

To appropriate up to $22,000 in fiscal 2016 from the Community Preservation Fund Historic Preservation Reserve to assist the Town Clerk’s office in the de-acidification, restoration and filming/digitization for the purpose of preserving and expanding/enhancing public access to historic town records.  Records to be preserved consist of Selectmen’s records Vol. 1-10, dated from 1724-1925, plus the index to records 1724-1850.  The appropriation is requested subject to the understanding that the Town Clerk will seek to make copies of microfilm or digital media available to researchers through placement in the Town Library or other publicly accessible place in addition to the Town Clerk’s office.  All funds are to be expended within one year from date of appropriation.